Texas has almost half of active rigs in the nation

The Texas average rig count was 821 on Dec. 12, representing about 48 percent of all active land rigs in the United States, the Texas Railroad Commission said.

In the last 12 months, Texas pulled 343 million barrels of oil out of the ground, along with 7.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, the commission said.

Texas natural gas production represents about 29 percent of total U.S. natural gas demand.

The Railroad Commission (which, by the way, San Antonio Sen. Jeff Wentworth would like to see renamed the Texas Energy Commission) also reports that final production for October was almost 29.3 million barrels of crude oil and 615.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas.